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Egypt Protests Upset Assumptions About the
Arab World

By Sarah Eltantawi

…ro’s protests are actually a Tunisia-inspired call for regime change. The “Day” of Rage—now entering its third day—proves that the old calculus relied upon by political “realists” grossly underestimates both the anger and will of the Egyptian people, as well as the generalized discontent of Arabs living under dictatorships. Pundits like Steven Walt, who asked to be “color(ed) skeptical” at the notion that Tunisia’s unrest could spread, rely heavil…

Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…ns, devotion to La Santa Muerte provides more hope in dealing with the profound social fragmentation and instability caused by drug violence than the spiritual succor offered by the institutional Church. In contrast to the American celebration of Halloween, largely a religious-turned-commercial holiday, Mexico’s Days of Dead are spaces where community solidarity, remembrance, and family continuity take shape. In this context, the image of La Sant…

New Research May Explain the Weakness of Centrism and the Religious Left

By Daniel Schultz

…vote for a like-minded candidate. Since that latter group represents about 70% of the party, moving to a pro-life candidate (or even conceding too much ground on the issue) would be a net loser: you lose about 6% of Dems by ticking off pro-lifers, and 17% by cheesing off the pro-choicers. As the party includes more religiously unaffiliated voters, these numbers only increase. It would be a terrible mistake for Democrats to follow Day’s advice and…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…hammering away at the fecklessness of today’s Democrats, as well as yesterday’s Whigs and (real) Republicans—indeed, anyone who would assert the rights of a Congress against the strong Unitary Executive, against an all-powerful president. As a Catholic myself, I thought I recognized an analogous ethos surrounding the doctrine of strong papal authority, criticized notably in Hans Küng’s Infallible? An Inquiry. Was Bill Barr’s quasi-religious fervo…

Reporting from Paris During COP21: A Haunted Sabbath

By Donna Schaper

This past Sunday—day four of COP21—was a day off for the summit although no one believed that any of the principals were really resting. What we hoped is that they were conferring, negotiating, reading, thinking, acting outside of the spotlight, which is now on them. The best reporting concurred. Amy Goodman on Democracy Now reported on the Nicaraguan minister explaining why they weren’t publicizing or offering their national carbon reduction goa…

Eyes on the Prize, Rainbow People! A Post-DOMA Challenge

By Peter Laarman

…ection amendments that should cause us take special care about language. Today is not a day to crow about the “new civil rights movement”; it is not a day to say, as one lesbian interviewed on NPR said, “they saved the best for last.” In fairness, the person interviewed was telling an otherwise compelling story about the need for queer people to make common cause with low-wage workers. She and her spouse are small-time farmers in the Central Valle…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from my daily work tasks by a colleague’s text urging me to turn on the television and stop all work. We all know what happened that day. But as I watched the storming of the capital—replete with white supremacy symbols, Christian symbols, Trump iconography, and images of weapons—I had an overwhelming sense, not of shock, but of inevitability. Nothing I was seeing reflec…

No More Pencils, No More Books: The Ultimate Goal of All Those Anti-Education Bills That Nobody’s Talking About

By Andrew L. Seidel

…about this fact so that, whatever the Supreme Court might decide (and nowadays there’s little guarantee the court would do the right thing), teachers simply avoided the subject to make their lives easier. It worked. This is also one of the Republican goals for imposing burdensome new requirements on voters—think voter IDs and barring same day registration—people will throw up their hands at the opaque, constantly-shifting bureaucracy and simply s…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…ican nominee, and Trump’s lead increased throughout the state. On election day, Donald Trump won Utah easily, as his vote total nearly doubled those received by McMullin and Hillary Clinton. The extent of Mormon support for Trump is debatable. Pew found that, nationwide, 61 percent of Mormons voted for Trump, which was higher than any other category outside of white evangelicals; the Utah College Exit Poll, however, with a much higher number of Mo…

“Soul Freedom” versus “Christian Nation”: Exploring the Legacy of Roger Williams

By Becky Garrison

…, pagans wild, your land’s the wilderness.” How did he see what few in his day saw as to the nature of exploitation and pillage that was occurring with Native lands and peoples? His sense of social justice was a major factor in his response to those specific and immediate issues. How did he implement his faith into action without crossing over the church-state divide? He was a strong separationist, even in the 17th century. He spoke unashamedly of…